Night, a memoir authored by Elie Wiesel, is recognized as one of the most powerful, life altering, and perspective changing pieces of literature ever written about the Holocaust. So impactful, in fact, that a multitude of poets have derived their poems’ themes from Wiesel’s Night. Poems like Yala Korwin’s The Little Boy with His Hands Up, John Pine’s The Survivor, and Marton Nlemöller’s First they came for the Jews illustrate nearly-identical themes as Elie Wiesel’s Night ─ Korwin shares the theme of “submissiveness is a derivation of fear”, Pine with “self- preservation allures callousness”, and Nlemöller with “indifference is devastating in practice”. To begin, similarly to Wiesel’s Night, Korwin alludes not only to the victims of the Holocaust,